Over the past several years, HAVI Global Solutions (HGS) has taken a lead in addressing the challenge to improve supply chain impacts by focusing on its product and service offerings, as well as its own impacts. Forward-thinking packaging and supply chain management consulting firm HGS addresses this priority with a holistic approach to sustainability, within its own business operations and in consulting solutions it offers to clients for effective supply chain management. They recognize that, in the course of delivering high quality, affordable products and services, they bear the responsibility to do so in a manner that is sustainable and socially responsible.

HGS product work focuses on optimizing product packaging, developing recycled raw material sources for product packaging, and designing for compatibility with recycling and/ or composting of used packaging increase used packaging recycling; while service focuses include supply chain management and recycling and waste management.

In 2009, HAVI Global Solutions implemented a program with Carbonfund.org to assess and neutralize emissions from the organization’s business air travel by supporting Carbonfund.org’s energy efficiency, renewable energy and forestry projects around the world. Over the past four years, HGS has mitigated almost 7 million pounds of carbon dioxide through their travel emissions offsetting program, equivalent to the greenhouse gases that would be absorbed by almost 80,000 tree seedlings grown for 10 years.

The goal of conducting business in a sustainable manner is a lofty one since actions to achieve sustainability impact every aspect of a company. HGS is committed to address sustainability priorities across its integrated supply chain, packaging and recycling and waste solutions in addition to its office. HGS manage hundreds of vendors across thousands of locations to help clients achieve sustainability goals and keep ahead of the growing regulatory demands for greater environmental responsibility in the areas of product packaging, supply chain and waste management.

By managing their own operations with a focus on sustainability, HGS develops first-hand strategies for their clients and helps to lead them and the product packaging industry towards a more sustainable future. Carbonfund.org is proud to partner with HAVI Global Solutions in these efforts.

The printing industry has made a lot of progress in helping its member organizations analyze and reduce carbon emissions from various aspects of the commercial printing process. These efforts to pursue industry sustainability have resonated with CarbonFree® Business Partner Digital Hub in very tangible ways.

Now in its fifth year as a CarbonFree® Partner, neutralizing its annual shipping emissions by supporting Carbonfund.org’s renewable energy projects, Mikal Martzel and Digital Hub has developed a broad range of environmentally responsible initiatives.

"We chose to partner with Carbonfund.org because we are on a mission to achieve as close to a zero carbon footprint as possible," explains Mikal Martzel, VP of Marketing, Sales and Environmental Policy at Digital Hub.

Over the past five years, Digital Hub has mitigated almost 400,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions through the CarbonFree® Business Partner program, equivalent to taking 37 cars off the road for a year.

Digital Hub produces all printed materials in-house, giving their staff complete control over the paper, inks and chemicals used to produce printed materials. This eliminates the chance of non-environmentally safe materials being used by an outsourced print vendor. Digital Hub also uses a waterless printing process when possible and reduces the chemicals used in traditional water-based offset printing methods.

In 2009, Digital Hub switched to 100% wind power for its electricity usage, further reducing its operational emissions. And their internal policies of “one stop” lunch service, in which all employees order lunch for delivery by the same local restaurant, paper and products recycling and food composting programs in their office adds to their sustainability initiatives.

Carbonfund.org is honored to partner with an industry leader like Digital Hub and commends their broad commitment to maintaining an environmentally sustainable business.